Victoria Hancock's Crushed Leg Healed Through Priesthood Administration After Wagon Wheel Runs Over It

While traveling to Birch Creek, Utah, six-year-old Victoria Hancock fell from the family wagon and the rear wheel ran directly over her right leg near the thigh. Victoria, the daughter of Mosiah Lyman Hancock and Martha, described what followed:

'The next thing I realized, I was lying flat on my back on the hard ground and the rear wagon wheel was running over my right leg near the thigh. That was the last I could remember about it for weeks. My leg bone was terribly crushed. Doctors were scarce for even those people with much money. Folks marveled at the fact that my leg mended so well, even with priesthood administration. Father was an expert at setting bones.'

The leg — described as 'terribly crushed' — healed well enough that Victoria later walked a mile to school through deep snow, which she notes caused considerable difficulty only because her bones were 'not very strong.' Those who witnessed the healing marveled that it had healed as well as it did.